This Week’s Top 5 Blog Posts
Why ending in 09/0*3*? Because I haven’t read anything today yet with how busy work has been. More importantly though, what’s this? A post on Stuart Conover’s homepage? The blog that refuses to die even with month long interruptions due to working on other things? Amazing I know! Today I return (briefly) to go over 5 articles I read this week that really hit it home for me. These articles either resonated with me, were good reads, had useful information, or all of the above and I felt they needed to be shared. Hope you enjoy!
1. Why should I blog and what should I blog about? by: Mari Walker
While I am of course interested in all things social media related I also have been spending most of my time applying this and being a part of the online horror community. Mari is someone who I’ve spoken to a few times as a fellow horror fanatic and at the same time is a web developer and internet junkie. This last week I ran across this post she made that is a great post that can be summed up as- “If you don’t blog but are interested, try.” What a lot of people forget is that blogging can be either for money or for fun and this is the point she is going with. Traffic, followers, etc doesn’t matter if you are blogging for fun and not money. Selling you on the fun part she than makes subtle suggestions on strengthening the content of anyone who does write in a positive way that isn’t overselling them on the idea of blogging but just to those who are interested. I’d suggest this article to anyone you know who is interested in blogging and has been unsure if they have wanted to take the plunge.
2. A Simple Way To Funnel New Traffic & Sales From Buried Blog Archives by: Lynn Terry on ProBlogger
This is an absolutely great article using a very solid method of using old content to obtain new readers and new sources of readers. It’s simple, it looks as if it will be effective, and something I hope to try later this year on one of the blogs I run as well as a slight variation of one of the ideas listed here. Lynn truly helped anyone who has had an informative site that has been running for awhile to properly convert old content into being a useful resource.
3. 10 Smartest Things You Can Do to Promote Your New Blog by: Christian Russell on David Risley
Honestly there is nothing “new” in this post for internet marketeers out there however it is a good overview of what to do while starting a new blog (which I read over while planning to launch a couple more in the horror niche I have not only found myself in but love working in.) This is the perfect post for anyone who has a new blog or is new to marketing their blog and worth a read for either category.
4. Social Media is NOT an End by: David Spinks
This one is short, sweet, and to the point. The title pretty much says it all and is a quick read on why social media is NOT an end and I 100% agree. Social Media can be used as a tool, a means to an end, however anyone who is into online marketing should more than know this to be true. It’s a quick read but one anyone who doesn’t agree with should browse quickly and take to heart. It’s an easy lesson to understand but not one always easy to learn for those who can’t separate fame and fortune.
5. When Should a Freelancer Barter? by: Thursday Bram
This read couldn’t have come at a better time for me. It probably wouldn’t have usually made it, even being a good read, aside from the absolutely perfect timing of it. I’ve been recently speaking with quite a few web developers trying to narrow down who I want to go with to work on a few sites on the off chance the developer I was speaking with ends up not getting back in touch. A few of these developers have mentioned being open to barter in products or services and this read helped a lot while speaking to them in ways that would benefit us both.
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